Isis-Demeter 1st C. CE

"Then, at last, Ceres recovered her countenance and spirits,
And set garlands, woven from ears of corn, on her hair:
And the tardy fields delivered a copious harvest,
And the threshing-floor barely held the heaped sheaves."

-Ovid, Fasti: Book 4, April 12, The Games of Ceres

A bust of Demeter, here identified with the Egyptian Goddess Isis.  Unknown Egyptian artist, 1st cent. CE.  Now in the Louvre.  Photo credit: Sailko.


Source:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Egitto,_busto_di_iside-demetra,_I_sec_ac..JPG


Quote:

https://www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/Latin/OvidFastiBkFour.php

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